• dhork@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It’s quite simple. If the US had evidence that aliens existed, do you think Donald Trump would gave kept it a secret? He would make a big show of insisting to be the guy who they talk to when they say “Take me to your leader”, and he wouldn’t be able to resist telling us all about it.

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      23 hours ago

      I don’t know about aliens or whatnot, but I don’t believe for a moment that people with actual secrets and important information, along with years or decades of intelligence experience and training, would look at Donald Fucking Trump and say “Damn, it’s too bad I have to share this highly-secret information with this guy, but I guess I have to.”

      Hell no, this is still the liberal mindset that there are “rules” that governments need to follow. We should know well by now that there are no rules, that the government of the US is built largely on lies and image, compartmentalized knowledge, and that nobody with actual power suffers consequences for breaking whatever rules they were supposed to have.